Timothy A. Wilkinson (born 1957) is a retired United States Air Force pararescueman who was assigned to the 24th Special Tactics Squadron during the Battle of Mogadishu. He was awarded the Air Force Cross for his actions in 1993 while serving with Task Force Ranger. His actions were later depicted in the book Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War, and its film adaptation Black Hawk Down, in which he was portrayed by Ty Burrell.
SWEEPS J175902.67-291153.5 is an F9 spectral class star located in the constellation Sagittarius, approximately 27,710 light-years from Earth. At least one planet, SWEEPS-11, orbits the star, which is currently, along with SWEEPS-04, the most distant known exoplanets.
It has an apparent magnitude of 19 and an absolute magnitude of 5.95. The star's mass is 1.10 solar masses, and its radius is 1.45 solar radii. The designation "SWEEPS J175902.67-291153.5" comes after the Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search (SWEEPS) project. This project also discovered its planetary companion.
Benedict Alvin Ong is a New Zealand local government politician in Dunedin, New Zealand. He is a councillor of the Dunedin City Council, in his first term. He has gained significant media attention following his censure by the council. The city council voted 10–2 on 26 March to request Ong resign, which he rejected. During the meeting, Ong chose to read from Franz Kafka's novel The Trial instead of defending himself.
Jeffrey M. Gabriel is an American domain broker and entrepreneur. He is the founder and chief executive officer of Saw.com, a domain name brokerage firm. Gabriel is known within the domain industry for brokering high-value domain transactions, including the sale of [...].com for $13 million in 2010, which was widely reported at the time as one of the highest publicly disclosed domain sales.